Complete Women's Studies Horror Romance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Contents

The Yellow Wallpaper

What Diantha Did

Our Androcentric Culture or The Man-Made World

Herland

The Crux

The home

Concerning Children


The Yellow Wallpaper-

A journal of the descent into madness of a woman suffering from a ''temporary nervous depression — a slight hysterical tendency.'' Hints throughout the story suggest the woman's problem is the recent birth of her child, insinuating postpartum depression. Confined in an upstairs room to recuperate by her well-meaning but dictatorial and oblivious husband, the yellow wallpaper in the room becomes the focal point of her growing insanity.

Herland-

The book describes an isolated society comprised entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination.

The Crux-

This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts its facts and figures is referred to